The GSMA kicked off its Mobile Asia Congress event this week with news that the region will cross the 2 billion mobile connections threshold by the end of the year and will exceed 3 billion connections by 2013. Other findings from the association’s Asia Pacific Mobile Observatory Report – produced by management consultants A.T. Kearney – include a tripling in size of the market since 2003, adding over a billion connections and growing at 26 percent CAGR to reach 1.7 billion connections in 2008.
In a statement, GSMA CEO Rob Conway noted that “operators have seen phenomenal take-up of mobile communications in the region, employing 10 million people and driving the mobile ecosystem’s contribution to the economy to nearly US$370 billion (2.82 percent of GDP).” The report was released on the eve of the GSMA’s Mobile Asia Congress, which gets underway tomorrow. Mobile Business Briefing will be reporting live from the event, where keynote speakers include the heads of operators China Mobile, China Unicom and NTT Docomo.
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